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This Is My Son

By Cathy Fisher

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Each episode Cathy Fisher welcomes a guest to share a son with her -- some piece of media that they feel a strong, protective love for, despite its shortcomings -- and Cathy gives the guest a son of her own. Opinions are validated, feelings are hurt, and everyone comes out a little more culturally enriched.

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Clean#16: Little Shop of Horrors v. Waiting for Guffman (with Mouse)

This week we explore the concepts of musicals in film and Christopher Guest via Little Shop of Horrors and Waiting for Guffman. Major topics: Greek-ish tragedies, forgivingly easy-to-sing musicals, erotic vines, deliberate artificiality, depictions of gayness, anti-irony, and personal identification with community theatre awfulness.

This week on This Is My Billy, we compare prominent Billies Corgan and Joel. Also covered: dog sounds, sad teens, feelings, the Nirvana-Dislike Society, one of the top proverbs in the Bible, maddening cassette tapes, Cinderella 5, floppy thumbs, speaking Billy Joel lyrics quietly to yourself, and real facts about Kris' workout.

Today we broach a new son variety called “book.” Kris Jacque brings her son You’re An Animal, Viskovitz! and Cathy brings her precious boy The Master and Margarita. Discussed: animals are aliens, sex and death, tweeting octopi, the origin of Buzzfeed, getting a Dr. Pepper blast downstairs, Everybody Loves Behemoth, displaying a complete lack of knowledge of Soviet history, and deciding that being a witch is pretty sick.

In a This Is My Son first, Cathy is joined by her good friend Nikita to talk about their shared son, Lin-Manuel Miranda's hit musical, Hamilton. Along the way, much attention and thought is given to the role of hustle in American history, founding father fandom, whether or not Alexander Hamilton could've had a three-way, and knee-jerk backlash.

This week Whitney returns with her venerable old son, Vampire Hunter D. Cathy picks her son from the same year, 1985, the Terry Gilliam film Brazil. Along the way, they discuss the emotional power of your gateway anime, cool teen goth phases, bad dubs, how to inspire people to ganbatte in a post-nuclear mutant-ridden hellpocalypse, snake lady tiddies, cookie-covered Bob Hoskins, and interrogating male privilege.

Max returns to the Son Zone with his grotesque boy, The Name of the Rose and a son for Cathy, Volcano. Also discussed: medieval garbage chutes, film major pedantry, seminal moments, Clavdivs, the sound of masculinity, melting physics, Disaster Man, and volcanoes fixing racism.

Explicit#9: The Protomen v. The Yellow River Boys (with David Faulkner)

David stops by to present a concept album about Mega Man, The Protomen. Cathy responds with a concept album about drinking urine, Urinal Street Station. Also discussed: gun hands, fantasy worlds, the unique properties of the Midwestern mind, piss freaks, Get Filthy to Come Clean by The White Rapid Lads, fingerless gloves, and smoking film. The FBI is coming to arrest them as we speak.

Explicit#8: That Mitchell and Webb Look v. The League of Gentlemen (with Aggie Traye)

In our first IRL live and in person episode, Cathy is joined by Aggie Traye and her precious boy, That Mitchell and Webb Look. Cathy presents her charming child The League of Gentlemen. Also discussed: British comedy pipelines, pandering, Native American ghost sex, and monster values.

Security Boy Max Eddy returns and plunges everyone down to the deepest depths of their ids as we explore Wilco's album "Star Wars" and the original cast recording of The Phantom of the Opera. Also discussed: gettin' dirty, moderately-priced vaporwave rugs, Wilco's cartoon island, extremely inaccurate synopses, and our mutual hatred for the musical Cats.

Mouse breaks precedent by proposing both her son (the anime Nichijou) and Cathy's son (Tim and Eric). Along the way, they spend a lot of time talking about different states, cultural context, and fear of inauthenticity.

Kris presents her son, The Plague Dogs, and Cathy counters with The Science of Sleep. We discuss the art and catharsis of the Sad Dog Story, why this podcast is #1 in the iTunes charts, and the dying art of horse tailoring.